Open a Romantic Novel and Read by Candlelight.

 

A Few Quotes For The Thought

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."


Victor Hugo, Les Miserables


"Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing."


Cicero


"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."


Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no Frigate like a Book

To take us Lands away,

Nor any Coursers like a Page

Of prancing Poetry...

Emily Dickinson


I love this!

"Readers may be divided into four classes:

1.) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied.

2.) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time.

3.) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read.

4.) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bon Voyage

May you read with zest!

I wonder what is on his little mind?

 

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” 


Emilie Buchwald

Refreshment on a hot summer day!

'Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.” 


  
Pat Conroy,  Beach Music

I am currently still reading The Associate by John Grisham.  I have had a lot of other things going on and not as much time as I would like, to read.  But I found this quote about reading that I like and wanted to share.  Until I finish my current book I will be writing little tidbits and posting little quotes that I find...


He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.


Barrows


Bon Voyage!

A Good Place to Read A Book

 

“Why do I read?
I just can't help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to laugh
and to be motivated.
I read to understand things I've never
been exposed to.
I read when I'm crabby, when I've just
said monumentally dumb things to the
people I love.
I read for strength to help me when I
feel broken, discouraged, and afraid.
I read when I'm angry at the whole
world.
I read when everything is going right.
I read to find hope.
I read because I'm made up not just of
skin and bones, of sights, feelings,
and a deep need for chocolate, but I'm
also made up of words.
Words describe my thoughts and what's
hidden in my heart.
Words are alive--when I've found a
story that I love, I read it again and
again, like playing a favorite song
over and over.
Reading isn't passive--I enter the
story with the characters, breathe
their air, feel their frustrations,
scream at them to stop when they're
about to do something stupid, cry with
them, laugh with them.
Reading for me, is spending time with a
friend.
A book is a friend.
You can never have too many.” 


Gary Paulson

Well I couldn't stand it.  I had to go back to the Monroe Symphony Book Fair again today.  I bought three cookbooks. 

Papa Rossi's secrets of Italian Cooking by Victor Bennet

Leaves from our Tuscan Kitchen by Janet Ross and Michael Waterfield

The Woman's Day Book of Salads by Carol Truax

On the way into the building they had boxes of books for twenty-five cents.  I found two gems!  I love old books so when I saw these two I was ecstatic.  I love Taylor Caldwell and Irwin Shaw and when I saw these old books I grabbed them.  

A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell

Beggar Man, Thief  by Irwin Shaw

I also picked up The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.  All these books for $5.00 and they are all hardback books.  I did good!

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any

left, 

 I buy food and clothes.” 

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus


Go check out the thrift shops and yard sales and get a good deal on a book and read this summer!


Bon Voyage!